About Event

This workshop, although open to all women, focuses on those working in any kind of organisation/team. The workshop is based on the need to be in a neutral but supportive environment which recognises the frequent inequity of the workplace, and provides the participants with tools, practices and skills to be able to negotiate that inequity.

Hopefully, through this, the participants are able to look at 'being' or 'doing' from a more authentic place.

With the help of drama and movement based tools, we will help women look at the ideas of presence, confidence and visibility as things they can develop in order to make their time at the workplace more effective and easy. The workshop - through its use of physical modalities of dance and theatre - also looks at posture, alignment and body well-being as a part of confidence and presence, which are closely interlinked with self-awareness and assuredness.

|| Details ||

WHAT: A 1-day theatre-and-movement-based workshop designed for women working in any and all organisations
WHEN: Sun, 18th June
TIME: 10:30am - 6:30pm
FOR : Open to all
FEE: Rs 3000 (includes lunch and refreshments)

|| Facilitators ||

Deepika Arwind is a Bangalore-based writer and theatre practitioner. Her theatre works include Nobody Sleeps Alone (nominated for The Hindu Metroplus Playwrights' Award 2013), and A Brief History of Your Hair (supported by India Foundation for the Arts, The New Voices Arts Project and Lshva Studio).

Her children's play One Dream Too Many was invited to the International Playwright's Intensive at The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC and the University of Maryland in association with ASSITEJ India.

A lot of her work in the corporate sector has involved her being a Business Role Player, creating modules around gender sensitivity, diversity, and inclusion and teamwork, using drama-based tools. She has also conducted several theatre workshops in organisations ranging from manufacturing units to investment banks.

Diya Naidu is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in Bangalore. She has trained in several movement forms such as Kalaripayattu, Yoga, Fitness and Conditioning, Jazz Ballet, Bharatnatyam, Improvisation and Kathak. However, her chosen performance language and field is contemporary dance. She has been studying this form as a movement system and skill base for over a decade.

Recently, she began exploring its somatic and creative possibilities. Dance as a way to express, heal and make oneself more aware has become a very potent idea all over the world and Diya is interested in the vast resources of dance and movement in this area.

A literature Honors graduate from Delhi University and Diploma in Movement Arts and Mixed Media from the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, she was a member of Attakkalari’s repertory company for seven years and also interned with The Danceworx, New Delhi for almost three years. She has perfomed, collaborated, conducted workshops and attended residencies with artists and organizations all over India, Europe, Bangladesh and South Korea.

|| Shoonya ||

A light-filled space surrounded by beautiful palm trees, in the heart of Bangalore on Lalbagh Road - Shoonya is a non-profit, which was established in 2014 with the aim of helping people further their journeys of self-discovery through deeper engagement with the arts and somatic practices. We host workshops, performances, open events, classes, film screenings, discussions, jams and more, and ensure that everything we do is done mindfully - with love, joy, care and warmth.